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4266. Flowers with an equally five-lobed corolla, five 

 stamens and a four-celled ovulary. 



Shrubs, seldom tall ; leaves simply opposite ; flowers always 

 small ; stamens equal ; style undivided ; fruit dry, in- 

 separable into fruitlets. Newcastlia. 1732& 



17326. Leaves from rhomboid- to cordate-ovate. 



Hardly shrubby, much beset with a dense whitish vestiture ; 

 leaves flaccid, sessile ; lobes of the calyx narrow-semi- 

 lanceolar, considerably longer than its tube ; corolla about 

 thrice as long as the calyx, cleft to near the middle, its 

 lobes rather narrow, well pointed ; stamens hardly half 

 as long as the corolla-tube ; style short. N. Dixoni. 



17766. Calyx-lobes and petals yellow, with brownish or 

 purplish spots. 



From rather dwarf to somewhat tall ; leaf from ovate- to 

 narrow-lanceolar, glabrous as well as its stalk ; flowers on 

 short stalklets, from two to few ; lateral lobes at the 

 summit of the gynostemium connivent, fringed, the 

 middle lobe pressed back, somewhat clavate, entire ; 

 anther attenuated into a conspicuous apex. 



Thelymitra fusco-lutea. 



18406. Leaves long, very straight, strong, quite filiform, 

 pointed. 



Robust, erect, rather tall ; stems very short, undivided ; 

 leaves all basal, quite terete or slightly compressed, finely 

 streaked, their apex pungent ; flower-clusters rather 

 large, globular, one or two or seldom more and then super- 

 posed ; bracts short-fringed ; petals comparatively large, 

 upwards whitish ; fruit obovate-globular, short-pointed ; 

 seeds three, almost spherical, pale-brownish outside. 



Xerotes juncea. 



18906. Fruit-stalks very long. 



Stems thinly filiform, branched ; leaves of extreme narrow- 

 ness, but on broadish clasping descending stalks, slightly 

 rough at the edges ; floral leaves diminutive, bract-like ; 

 fruit-stalk capillary ; fruitlets minute, slightly keeled, 

 their base constrictedly narrowed. 



(Lepilaena Australis.) Althenia Australia. 



